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Kale, Cannellini Beans & Potato Soup
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A wonderful soup! So comforting, warming and tasty looking.ReplyDelete
I'm so glad you posted this too! It's cold out and I could use a big bowl of soup. Looks fabulous!ReplyDelete
I'm determined to eat more kale this year, and this soup is going on my list of dishes to make soon.ReplyDelete
That is the perfect soup - just lots and lots of veg!ReplyDelete
lovely soup! I made a similar version from time to time :)ReplyDelete
this looks delicious! love that it is healthy, vegan, and gluten free :). and your son is still home from college? lucky you! :) hope you cherish the extended winter vacation with the family. hugs.ReplyDelete
That is so amazing Shulie. An article on a magazine plus it will be on the flight!ReplyDelete
This soup looks very comforting and I am yet to fall in love with Kale :)
Reading your article now.
TY my friends. It is a very comforting hearty soup. I happened to use what I had at home and come up with this. You can use your imagination. I was 'playing' with kale and chard recently. made kale chips and more. I don't think I ever bought as much kale as in recent weeks. My son and I agree with him thinks it is very similar to kelp in consistency and taste. Whether baked as a kale chip or in a soup. Ahahaha Kankana how about kelp? I completely understand where you are coming from but in all sincerity it's packed with nutrients and in this soup really tastes like minestrone so try it.:)ReplyDelete
I love this hearty soup, something I can have on a regular basis. Fancy or simple fares, you can do no wrong.ReplyDeleteReplies
I know right, Wabbit?! :)Delete
I love your delicious fagioli soup. It's so nice to come home to a bowl of hot soup on a cold winter's day. I would be thrilled to have a bowl for dinner with pita and hummus-delicious:)ReplyDeleteReplies
Hey girlie, just looked at your link from a year ago for Fagioli. So similar only thing you used rosemary and Parmesan and I used thyme with no cheese in it. Yours looking awesome Lora!!Delete
Now this is soup! I think I'll wait til winter to give it a try but it's a definite for me. looks wonderful.ReplyDeleteReplies
Aww I forget about the flipped seasons but at least you are enjoying warm sun rays:) Soak up some for us here experiencing winter! :)Delete
The soup looks delicious. YAY on the article. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Fifi!!:)Delete
Great soup I can say, since I also make a similar version using white bean but without the potatoes.They are absolutely delicious and comforting!Congrats on the article!ReplyDeleteReplies
I know! :) The base is pretty much universal. I think if I put petite pasta shells it would me more of a minestrone. I never thought of it before my son pointed it out to me but it truly had that Whole Foods Minestrone flavor.Delete
What a healthy hearty soup - I love kale in winter soups!ReplyDeleteReplies
I make similar soup sans the kale all the time during the winter especially but this winter I went kale and chard crazed. You can see chard and kale chips in previous post. I bought so many bunches of kale within the last few weeks that I don't recall ever buying so much in my lifetime. I am happy I discovered an enthusiasm for kale as it is packed with nutrients.Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 19, 2012 at 12:40 AM
This looks like Food 52's Ribollita soup from Lidia Bastianich!ReplyDeleteReplies
This soup is very similar to many others. Basic onion, celery, garlic, carrot, tomatoes and herbs. Nothing innovative about that but necessary ingredients for any soup base. This is same base I use for other soups I make unless I make Indian, Asian or other ethnic soups. For chicken soup consomme I don't add the tomatoes. In Moroccan couscous soup I add cilantro and fennel. It is very similar to my friend Lora's see above comment, Fagioli soup as well, she published a year ago. Only thing she used rosemary instead of thyme and Parmesan which I never use in my soup. First time using kale for me I sauteed it a bit to get it to give and blend but it is a hardy leaf. Next time I would appreciate you leaving your name!!Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 19, 2012 at 1:59 AM
As soon as I saw the picture I - literally - sound out loud, "That looks SO good!" What a terrific soup!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you so much! :) It is a comforting one for cold winter days.Delete
Hmmmm, I love this soup, I can't remember when was the last time I had it. I know it's a soup but I like to have it with bread than with the spoon. Just great!ReplyDeleteReplies
So true! A nice Italian loaf will go beautifully with this. I didn't have that perfect bread at home to dip into this soup when I made it few days ago. Need to plan better next time! :)Delete
Looks like a chilly and rainy weekend is forecasted for San Diego. I think I'm going to need to make some of this soup to get me through :)ReplyDelete
I love kale but i don't know why I haven't yet used it in a soup so thanks foe sharing! A lovely and hearty soup indeed!ReplyDelete
This is a beautiful, healthy, and hearty soup! I've saved the recipe and plan to try it on Saturday, when my boys (husband and son) will be looking for something hot and nourishing. What I love most: it's a simple recipe with nourishing, wholesome ingredients. Kudos!ReplyDelete
I definitely saved this recipe! I will be making this very soon :)ReplyDelete
This soup looks wonderful. I think we might make it tonight!ReplyDelete
Congratulations on the article! This soup does look incredibly warm and cozy :)ReplyDelete
Congrats on the article Shulie. Wow, it will be on flight too. That's something great and I am so proud of you. The soup looks so hearty and filling. I love kale and have experimented few Indian dishes with it and they turned out pretty good.ReplyDelete
Whether a minestrone, fagioli or vegetable soup, it's warm and comforting and exactly what we crave at this time of year (in the Northern Hemisphere anyway). Congrats on the article, Shulie!ReplyDelete
Awesome recipe! Will definitely give this one a try!! Once again amazing!ReplyDelete
Why won't you post such a recipe?! Its beautifulReplyDeleteReplies
Ahahaha Kulsum TY you are the sweetest!! Just you know it never crossed my mind to post it, as I put it together last minute. Just like many dishes I cook and bake in my kitchen, whether planned or spontaneous, that never make it to these virtual pages!!:)Delete
This looks wonderful - so hearty and delicious, perfect for chilly evenings!ReplyDelete
Congratulations on the feature -- that bowl of soup is so comforting and drool-worthy. I want :)ReplyDelete
Gorgeous soup, and looks so tasty too! I think this would be great with my Brazilian Cheese Puffs~Mmm...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 29, 2012 at 6:36 PM
Looks so delicious and hearty - a true winter dish!ReplyDelete
This soup has delicious and comfort written all over it. Just perfect for this time of year.ReplyDelete
Craving this soup now. Looks spectacular!ReplyDelete
this is calling my nameReplyDelete


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VanHyfte named IBCA first team
Annawan junior Celina VanHyfte was named to the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association girls Class 1A and 2A all-state first team.
Joining VanHyfte on the first team were Alison Webb of Goreville, Tyra Buss of Mt. Carmel, Paige Rakers of Carlyle, Micah Jones of Cowden-Herrick/Beecher City, Taylor McClintock of Illini Bluffs, Sophie Brunner of Freeport Aquin, Randa Harshbarger of St. Thomas More, Rebekah Ehresman of El Paso-Gridley, Ali Ringering of Red Bud, Lexi Wallen of St. Thomas More, Sophie Reecher of Byron, Tori McCoy of St. Thomas More, Maddie Timmerman of Breese Central and Kaydie Grooms of Marshall.
Area players earning second team honors were Hannah Wallace of Brimfield and Hannah Nimrick of Riverdale.
Sarah Hansen of Wethersfield and Madisyn Paxson of Stark County were named to the third team, along with Cassidy Clark of Orion, Cassie Reilly of Prophetstown, Carly Adams of Sherrard and Morgan Dean of St. Bede.
Kerrigan Dura of Brimfield was named to the fourth team.
Receiving special mention were Elle May of Riverdale, Ashley Phillips of Stark County, Riley Walters of Prophetstown, Lydia Stariha of St. Bede, Riley Strandgard of Sherrard, Lauren Claus of Riverdale and Kennedy Dura of Brimfield.


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Revision as of 21:56, 8 November 2013
Hooray! We're so glad you want to visit. Noisebridge is a space that has been designed since its inception to be open to pretty much all hackers 24/7. We especially welcome those who like to tinker and hack on things, and those who are generally nice. On average, we do not want people looking for a halfway house to sleep in, using the space to store their items, coming here to indefinitely "borrow" or outright steal things, or being on the lookout for people to annoy. Read here for more Visitor advice on our culture and some suggestions on how to interface with it. Our collectivist Do-ocracy -style anarchy is often strange to people who are accustomed to more authoritarian structures, and many new visitors are initially confused on how things work or who they should talk to about things. You can get an excellent gist of cutting-edge happenings by reading the notes from our latest weekly meeting.
Noisebridge is located on the 3rd floor of 2169 Mission in San Francisco. Read up on Getting Here. There is a staircase and an accessible elevator. The elevator can be a little persnickety but it has a bell that rings up into the space for assistance if needed. Read more about Accessibility.
How Do I Get Into 2169 Mission?
If you've never been to the space before, simply press the door bell on the right of the gate labeled "Noisebridge" with tiny text. If there's someone in the space who feels like giving a tour (most of the time, except for late at night and early morning) they may buzz you in.
If you are inside Noisebridge and want to open the gate for someone outside you can look through the handy-dandy "periscope" closed-circuit camera to see who's there. If you know them, hit the "DOOR" button on the intercom pad to buzz them in. Please take responsibility for the people you let into the space!
Otherwise, here are some cunning ways to get in.
- If you've got a valid code, you can use the payphone keypad next to the gate to let yourself in.
- There's an app for your Android device which will open the gate (almost) every time.
- SSH into Pony, and run opengate, which is an excellent wrapper for the Noisbridge API command curl -X POST http://api.noisebridge.net/gate/open.
- From inside Noisbridge, go to http://pony.noise/gate OR http://172.30.0.30/gate/
- Sadly, Gatebot doesn't work right now.
More info about doors, keys, openings, and mousetraps available here: Access_Control.
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Find a Regular or Associate Member that is physically in the space to vouch for you. When they leave, you might have to find another member to vouch for you or else you may be asked to come back another time. You might:
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Alan Rickman was at Stanley Tucci's wedding. And Meryl Streep. And Colin Firth. And Patricia Clarkson. We don't have to talk about this anymore. He wins.
Tucci married Felicity Blunt a few weeks ago in the US but celebrated the occasion in London this weekend with a ceremony and reception. These are photos from the rehearsal dinner/night before party at Shoreditch House. So...Andy and Nigel from Devil Wears Prara married on the same weekend? How come no one else loves this coincidence more than I do? And how badass is it that Steve Buscemi was the best man?
Also, thanks to a reader called Jennifer, I just learned that Stanley Tucci has a new cookbook (I have since googled and know now that he has more than one; sorry, it's just never been something I've paid attention to -- cooking books) and that it will be released next week. I take this to mean that Stanley Tucci has cooked for Meryl Streep. I mean, he would have to have. Tucci offers his take on "homemade Italian meals" and these are some of recipes according to the publisher's notes: "decadent Venetian Seafood Salad; rich and gratifying Lasagna Made with Polenta and Gorgonzola Cheese; spicy Spaghetti with Tomato and Tuna; delicate Pork Tenderloin with Fennel and Rosemary; fruity Roast Duck with Fresh Figs; flavorful Baked Whole Fish in an Aromatic Salt Crust; savory Eggplant and Zucchini Casserole with Potatoes; buttery Plum and Polenta Cake; and yes, of course, the legendary Timpano."
If Tucci's timpano is good enough for Meryl, it's good enough for all of us. Now to find one of my cooking friends to make it for me...


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BeliefNet has a very good comment on the subject:
"Over a hundred of these fringe protest groups coalesced, as they so often do, into a confused mêlée of conflicting special interests," reported Yiannopoulos. "They were united, however, in the sheer nastiness with which they expressed their views. To give but one example — as pilgrims sang "Hallelujah", "Long Live the Pope!" and Benedicto!" demonstrators responded with shrieks of "Nazis!" and "Padophiles, watch out children!"
"So much for the inclusive tolerance trumpeted by the Left," writes Yiannopolos. "Here in Madrid was its real face: a sneering, violent mob of self-righteous bullies who thought it appropriate to hurl abuse at children for the crime of having pride in their faith and being excited about by a visit from the Holy Father."
Yesterday, police had to protect us from an "indignados'" mob who wanted to "beat us" just for being Catholics and the day before yesterday, pilgrims were targeted (most of them youngsters and one of them in a wheelchair) because "Catholics provoke us, they shouldn't exist. We should burn them alive like in 1936". Everything with this kind of "beautiful" and "elegant" images, which tried to mock Christian Catholic faith:
1936. Most of my family was murdered that same year because they were Catholic and Libertarian-Conservatives. I hope history doesn't repeat itself.
Anyway, as Catholic Herald writes: "Madrid will never forget this scenes of devotion" and "The street party pauses for the Way of the Cross".
More photos here.
A note: this event hasn't cost the taxpayers a dime, because it has been paid by the pilgrims (70% of the total cost) and the sponsors (the rest 30%).
Related articles
- 121 hours of 'non-stop' prayer during WYD (onecatholicnews.wordpress.com)
- Pope starts Spain visit with call for economic ethics – Reuters (news.google.com)
- Despite complaints on costs, WYD will boost Spain's economy – Catholic Culture (news.google.com)
- WYD: bearing witness to the anti-Christian pogroms in Kandhamal (onecatholicnews.wordpress.com)


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Contemporary works for Piano, Cello, Classical Percussion, Electronics and Electric Guitar by the Bad Boys: Daan Vandewalle, Arne Deforce, Chris Cutler and Jean-Marc Monetera. These pieces were recorded at various European festivals over the last five years and are what I like to think of as living music - it�s hard to describe it further; because only the Bad Boys are this Bad. File Under Contemporary Classical. This is the first, we hope, of a series of download-only releases that will enable us to continue to release what we want in the face of the current climate of retailer caution and thoughtless free downloading. Feedback and suggestion are most welcome. www.rerdownloads.com/�./�.
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NCLB: School board to Congress: Fix the act
Editor's Note: This is the fourth and final story in a series on No Child Left Behind.
At its meeting Thursday, the Sierra Sands Unified School District Board of Education adopted a resolution urging Congress to fix the No Child Left Behind Act. Congress is considering reauthorization of the act.
According to district officials, school district strongly support standards, assessments and accountability for public schools. While there is great support for NCLB's goals, efforts at implementation have proven that many of the requirements are unrealistic.
"School districts across the state strongly support standards, assessment and accountability for the state's public schools," Supt. Joanna Rummer said. "While there is great support for the goals of the No Child Left Behind Act, efforts at implementation have proven that many of its requirements are simply unrealistic."
One of the district's major concerns is that No Child Left Behind established an adequate-yearly-progress measure that conflicts with California's Academic Performance Index.
Another concern is the act requires every public-school student to be proficient in core academic subjects by 2014, and establishes escalating penalties for schools and districts that fall short of that goal.
"However, it is evident that the definition of AYP under the federal system will ultimately result in all schools and districts failing to achieve proficiency by 2014 because it establishes a criterion that is impossible to meet," Rummer said.
Other concerns are NCLB requires schools to ensure a 95-percent participation rate on the state's test and insufficient funding to cover the costs of implementing No Child Left Behind.
Board member Amy Covert said the act is a hot topic for her.
"This is actually one thing we spend a lot of time at the federal impact aid discussing, especially now that reauthorization is kind of settled," she said.
Covert said NCLB is a great concept, but it needs a lot of fixing.
Looking at the resolution, she said the portion addressing English-language learners and special-education students and funding are the greatest concern to her.
"This is an area that I hold a lot of concerns over, and it's something that when we get done and meet with our congressman over federal impact aid, we also bring this up frequently with the English-language learners and special-education students and the absolutely unrealistic requirements that they be proficient by 2014," Covert said. "It's not fair to the students, and it's not fair to the staff to expect that to be able to happen without us receiving the federal sanctions when we don't manage to meet that, and especially if they're not going to give us funding required in order to meet those standards."
Board member Kurt Rockwell said the fundamental goals of NCLB are admirable.
"Closing the achievement gap, introducing more rigorous and higher standards in the classroom, improving the quality of teaching across the profession are all laudable," he said.
"Implementation is another matter. Our country is made of a wide range of cultures, values, and socioeconomic situations," Rockwell said. "That makes it extremely difficult to make a one-size-fits-all approach to fixing education. It appears that the first cut at these improvements has had many positive results. As one might expect, however, there is room for improvement."
He said many organizations, with significant resources, knowledge of the existing act, and the time and energy to offer thorough analyses have published their thoughts. "Most of what I've seen has, to a large extent, been consistent as to the general areas of NCLB that needs to be revised."
Rockwell pointed out that much has been made of the fact that NCLB's process for measuring adequate yearly progress is, at best flawed.
"The fact that the capability of a student in one state having a certain level of skill and ability enables him to meet the proficiency requirement while another student in another state with the identical level of skill and ability could not meet the proficiency standards seems nonsensical to me," he said.
"The fact that significant growth in academic proficiency may be ignored in favor of an arbitrary goal of 100-percent proficiency by 2013-2014, especially when 100 percent proficiency in a student population that includes significant numbers of English-language learners and special-education students is essentially unattainable, seems short sighted. However, we need to be careful. It seems that many of the suggestions being offered promote definition of the progress standards by local, county, and/or state organizations. It seems to me that this is the approach that got us in the situation that required the establishment of NCLB in the first place. We need flexibility, but it needs to be flexibility with oversight."
Peter D. Hart Research Associates Inc. and The Winston Group recently conducted a national survey of parents of kindergarten through 12th-grade students, as well as public-school administrators and public-school teachers.
Despite the American public's clear lack of knowledge about the federal No Child Left Behind Act and the strong misgivings of teachers and school administrators have about the legislation, the public and public school teachers and administrators strongly support reauthorization, the report stated. Only 16 percent of the public and 13 percent of parents of school-age children oppose reauthorization.
The report also stated that despite public-school teachers' and administrators' strong negative views of NCLB, a relatively small number — 25 percent of teachers and 22 percent of administrators — believe Congress should not reauthorize the law. The teachers and administrators are clear in calling for major changes in NCLB as it is reauthorized.
The survey shows all groups support high standards of accountability, but they are also looking for more flexibility in how NCLB is implemented, supporting policies that find solutions for poorly performing schools.
According to the survey, 57 percent of the public believes that funding should be increased in all or most cases for schools that perform poorly on state assessments, and 71 percent of teachers and 61 percent of administrators support additional funding for struggling schools. Only 25 percent of the public believes that new administrators should take over in cases where schools are testing poorly, while only 12 percent would replace the teachers in schools that perform poorly on NCLB tests.
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Gov. Beshear today said he will take no action on Senate Bill 50, allowing it to become law.
"This shows what can happen when the people get behind positive legislation that has the potential to create jobs and opportunity for Kentucky," Comer said. "Six months ago, industrial hemp was on nobody's radar. Now, SB 50 will become the law of the Commonwealth. I'm grateful to all the people — legislators, farmers, business people, Republicans, Democrats — who made their voices heard on this issue, and to Sen. Paul Hornback for taking a chance and sponsoring the bill."
Commissioner Comer plans to call on Washington and work with Kentucky's congressional delegation to ask federal authorities for permission to grow industrial hemp in Kentucky.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — It's the Hollywood ending every studio wants: Low-cost production and high returns at the box office.
Filmmakers Alex and Stephen Kendrick seem to have the formula down — grossing nearly $80 million on four films made for less than $4 million combined. Only thing is the Kendrick brothers work far from Hollywood and, outside the world of Christian-themed cinema, many have never heard of their films.
That could change.
Increasingly, major studios appear to be taking a leap for faith-based audiences with biblical epics such as "Noah" starring Russell Crowe, the planned December release of "Exodus" and a remake of "Ben-Hur" for early 2016.
At one point in April, there were four faith-based movies in the Top 20 at the box office, including "Heaven Is for Real," about a 4-year-old boy's account of his trip to heaven. It has grossed more than $99 million on a production budget of $12 million by Sony Pictures.
"Hollywood has taken note," said DeVon Franklin, former Sony senior vice president of production, who oversaw "Heaven Is for Real."
The Kendrick brothers — who just wrapped up filming their fifth project — are making movies that could see wider release as distributors pay attention to the box office trends in the traditional Bible Belt and beyond.
Their latest film, which has yet to have a title, centers on a family realizing the power of prayer.
"The point is not racing to see how many movies we can produce," said Alex Kendrick, in a telephone interview from Charlotte, North Carolina. "The point is to take the time, in prayer and research, to make a solid film and get the most ministry out of it before moving to the next one."
The Kendricks began with a tiny production company with their pastor at Sherwood Baptist, but decided to strike out on their own with their fifth film. The brothers say the separation was amicable and necessary for them to grow as filmmakers and recruit actors and crew nationwide.
In previous movies, the brothers mostly used volunteers from their church though one of their more popular movies, "Fireproof," did include Kirk Cameron, a veteran actor memorably known starting in the 80s for his youthful role in a popular TV sitcom, Growing Pains.
"The people we've gotten to meet who have expertise in areas that we have needed help have come to the table," said Stephen Kendrick. "And we're growing as filmmakers."
They're also giving back. The brothers are using the fruits of their success to help up-and-coming filmmakers with projects, as well as mentor a younger generation of hopefuls. During their recent filming, they brought in about 20 interns from different universities who worked under professionals involved in the making of the film.
"We believe every generation needs to be pouring into and investing in the next generation," Stephen Kendrick said. "Hopefully, they'll be able to stand on our shoulders one day and make even better movies."
The Kendricks — both ministers who sport salt-and-pepper beards — grew up in suburban Atlanta and now live in Albany in southwestern Georgia. They are still part of the ministry team at the Sherwood megachurch. Along with the church's senior pastor, Michael Catt, they created Sherwood Pictures in 2002 and scraped together $20,000 to put out their first film, "Flywheel," in 2003 about a dishonest used car salesman who learns integrity.
With a budget of $100,000, the company released "Facing the Giants" in 2006. That film — about having courage amid adversity — ended up grossing more than $10 million, appearing in a little over 400 theaters primarily in the South. Then came "Fireproof," a story about a couple struggling to make their marriage work. That movie was made with a budget of just $500,000 and grossed over $33 million.
"That was what I would call the dawning of the new era of independent Christian films," said Ben Howard, senior vice president of Provident Films, a division of Sony Music Entertainment that focuses on the Christian audience.
"Courageous," a film about fatherhood, was released in 2011 and made more than $34 million on a $2 million budget. The fifth Kendrick brothers' movie is expected to cost at least $3 million.
Box office expert Paul Dergarabedian said the Kendricks' earlier movies "weren't what anyone would consider blockbusters in the conventional sense of the word."
"But the success of those films probably influenced filmmakers, studios, producers, distributors, to look at this genre as a viable, potentially money-making genre," said Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak.
Faith-based entertainment is not new territory. The Bible alone has spawned dozens of films dating back to the 1920s and Broadway has found enduring hits in shows such as "Jesus Christ Superstar."
While the Kendricks have found success, they're still in the shadows of faith-centric blockbusters like "Noah," which was released in March and has made more than $359 million at the global box office on a production budget of $125 million.
However, the Kendricks and others like them have been able to move their lower-budget faith-based films from limited theaters to wider release mainly through a grassroots approach more reminiscent of community theater. It's this type of fan base growth, which brings in millions in revenue, that has gotten the attention of major studios.
"What people must understand is that Hollywood is a business," said Bishop T.D. Jakes, a megachurch pastor who produced "Heaven Is for Real" and other faith-based movies. "And while we have a message that we want to convey, we are conveying that message to an idiom of thought that is controlled by businesses and budgets."
The Kendricks' marketing strategy, in particular, has become sort of a blueprint for other Christian filmmakers over the years. It involves pre-release screenings for community church leaders, who are encouraged to spread the word about the film.
"Which is accelerated because of social media," said Sean Wolfington, a digital marketing entrepreneur who helped promote "Fireproof" and "Son of God," a faith-based film by husband and wife filmmakers Mark Burnett and Roma Downey about the life of Jesus Christ that was released in February and has made more than $67 million on a production budget of a little over $20 million.
Whatever the case, the success of such movies is likely to command the attention of major studios for quite a while.
"When we have films that represent our beliefs ... (and) to be able to have more options of those types of films in the marketplace; it's certainly speaking to Hollywood, without question," said Franklin, now president and CEO of Franklin Entertainment.


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When you buy a Raspberry Pi, the $35 computer doesn't come with an operating system. Loading your operating system of choice onto an SD card and then booting the Pi turns out to be pretty easy. But where do Pi-compatible operating systems come from?
With the Raspberry Pi having just turned one year old, we decided to find out how Raspbian—the officially recommended Pi operating system—came into being. The project required 60-hour work weeks, a home-built cluster of ARM computers, and the rebuilding of 19,000 Linux software packages. And it was all accomplished by two volunteers.
Like the Raspberry Pi itself, an unexpected success story
Although there are numerous operating systems for the Pi, the Raspberry Pi Foundation recommends one for the general populace. When the Pi was born a year ago, the recommended operating system was a version of Red Hat's Fedora tailored to the computer's ARM processor. But within a few months, Fedora fell out of favor on the Pi and was replaced by Raspbian. It's a version of Debian painstakingly rebuilt for the Raspberry Pi by two volunteers named Mike Thompson and Peter Green.
It began because Thompson was ready for the next big thing. Thompson had been CTO and co-founder of Atomz, a hosted search service acquired by WebSideStory in 2005. Thompson got a "not unhealthy slice" of the $45 million or so that company sold for, and he eventually stopped working to spend a few years hanging out with his wife and kids.
A year ago, he was finally ready to get back into the technology field. Robotics is one of Thompson's primary interests, and the Pi looked like a great platform for that. It's cheap and small enough to be easily embedded into a variety of systems. But there wasn't an operating system fully optimized for the Pi's floating point unit, which is important in robotics projects and various other types of math-intensive applications.
"When I first learned of the Raspberry Pi, I was disappointed that none of the Linux distributions available for it would make use of the very fast floating point hardware that was present on the Pi," Thompson told me. "As a long-time Debian user, I was like, 'I'd rather see Debian [than Fedora]' and I wanted to see the floating point enabled because I have this longer-term interest in getting robotics working with these inexpensive boxes."
Debian had added floating point support for the ARMv7 processor, but not the ARMv6 processor used in the Pi. Debian "didn't see a product like the Raspberry Pi coming on the horizon. Even though ARMv6 in Pi has a pretty capable floating point unit, they didn't support it," Thompson said. Thus, "all the thousands or tens of thousands of software packages they built wouldn't support the Raspberry Pi."
Just as a graphics processing unit handles graphics operations very quickly, a "floating point unit performs all the math very quickly," Thompson said. "It's a peripheral that not every computer has, but when it does you really want to take advantage of it." The floating point unit is part of the PI's Broadcom BCM2835 system-on-a-chip.
If you don't take advantage of floating point capability in the hardware, a lot of mathematical operations must be performed in software, lengthening the amount of time it takes for the Pi to do useful work. This is important for robots, where complicated math operations are used for processing data from cameras and sensors, and for controlling motors with precision and speed, Thompson said. It's also important for multimedia processing, encoding music, physics simulations, or "pretty much anything that is numerically intensive."
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The path forward was clear to Thompson: rebuild Debian to run on the Raspberry Pi. This required shifting 19,000 packages from Debian to Raspbian—a monumental task.
Thompson didn't go it alone, though. He started a Raspberry Pi forum thread to talk to other people interested in bringing Debian to the Raspberry Pi. The thread caught the interest of Peter Green, a Debian developer and PhD student in the UK who went by the handle "plugwash" in the forums.
Green was a rare mix. He not only had the expertise to co-lead the project with Thompson, but he was also crazy enough to do it.
"I felt I was the only one of the people who were talking in the threads about the project that became Raspbian with enough Debian knowledge to make the rebuild a success," Green told me. "I'm sure there are other people within the Debian project who could have done it if they were interested and crazy enough, and there were many people in the Debian project who provided us with bits of help along the way."
When Thompson and Green got started, the Pi wasn't actually available yet. Even if it had been, it wouldn't be capable of rebuilding Debian in a reasonable amount of time. Thus, Thompson set up a cluster of eight Freescale iMX53 Quick Start Boards, each with 1GB of memory, a 1GHz ARMv7 processor, and (most importantly) SATA hard drives. One of the main reasons the Pi would be unsuitable for this type of work is the bottleneck introduced by USB storage, Thompson said. The Freescale boards were able to build Raspbian anywhere from four to 12 times faster than the Raspberry Pi would have.
Thompson spent nearly $3,000 on the cluster but recouped those costs through donations to the project. In addition to the single-board ARM systems, there is a separate Linux PC to serve as the repository for Raspbian builds. The repository server retrieves source packages from Debian repositories, schedules jobs for the Freescale systems, and collects the binary packages once the builds are complete. "The built packages are all staged in the repository and then synced with the external repository we maintain at www.raspbian.org where users pull their packages from," Thompson explained.
At first, Thompson used an ARM-based HP Media Vault MV5150 for the repository, but later upgraded to an Intel-based system when more horsepower was needed. Although each Freescale board has its own hard drive used for building packages, the main storage duties are handled by the repository server's 500GB drive, which is about two-thirds full now. Here's what the cluster looked like when he was first setting it up:
Thompson and Green weren't starting from scratch. Debian is already one of the most widely used Linux-based operating systems, obviously. Its ARMv7 port provided a solid foundation.
"We greatly leveraged the work done previously by the Debian Project to support floating point hardware on ARMv7 devices," Thompson said. "Other than the effort to actually build [19,000] software packages, 95 percent of the work done to port the software to support the Raspberry Pi was already done by Debian."
That's not to say the Thompson/Green work in bringing Debian to ARMv6 and its floating point unit was trivial, however. Green explained:
In Debian the compilers have default settings built into them. These default settings set things like the CPU family, the minimum CPU requirements, and the ABI [application binary interface] in use. Most packages leave those settings alone. We modified the compiler packages to reduce the default settings to ARMv6
For the majority of source packages rebuilding them with a compiler that uses our new defaults is enough to make them build ARMv6 code.
A lot of the original work was done manually, but Green eventually created auto-builder software to automate much of the process. Those auto-builders (which run in a chroot environment on top of Debian) are still running to this day, pulling updated packages from Debian repositories and automatically re-compiling them for Raspbian.
Those auto-builders also detect when there's a problem that prevents the package from being automatically rebuilt. Green explained in an e-mail:
There are several things that could cause a package to come out still containing ARMv7 code.
We hacked together a script (using readelf) to check for ARMv7 code in packages so we could tell which packages... needed further attention to eliminate it. ARMv7 contamination can come from several sources.
Static libraries [are one example]: these are taken from the build environment and incorporated into binaries. So if the static library contains ARMv7 code then it will go into the resulting binary. This was a big pain during the early days of the project as we had to use packages from Debian armhf [Debian's ARM floating point port] to break dependency cycles, but those packages could contain static libraries with ARMv7 code in and sometimes it took several attempts at rebuilding and installing different packages to figure out which library the contamination was coming from, and replace it with an uncontaminated version. However, this isn't really a problem anymore since having got past the bootstrapping problem we can nearly always build packages in a clean Raspbian environment.
Raspbian became available for download on April 20, 2012 in limited form, containing only about five percent of the Debian packages. "Enough to build a root filesystem that would boot to a command line," Thompson said.


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In this amazingly competitive society of ours, how many of us truly feel good about ourselves? How often do we extend to ourselves … the same courtesies, considerations, nurturing, forgiveness and understanding we would a loved one, a friend, or even a stranger?
Our culture tells us we need to be special and above average to feel good about ourselves. Yet, it is not possible for all of us to be above average at the same time. Don't we usually know of someone richer, more attractive, "more together" or successful than we are? Even if we discount the material aspects and consider the more spiritual facet, don't we know of those who seem more at peace, more aware or living in the moment. Even when we do manage to feel a strong sense of self-esteem or self-confidence, we are not able to consistently hold on to it. For most, our sense of self-worth bounces around like a ping-pong ball, rising and falling strongly tied with our latest success or failure.
In an effort to eliminate labeling ourselves as "good" or "bad", and clearly accept ourselves with an open heart … to treat ourselves with the same kindness, caring, and compassion we would show to a good friend … I would like to incorporate more self-compassion and self-kindess in my life.
To "give this planet a much needed shot of fun, support and positive energy" … I am dubbing Thursdays as Nurturing Thursday … a spin-off of the suspended Occupy Blogosphere started by Amy of SoulDipper.
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February 5, 2013 — By reprogramming a 7-year-old girl's own immune cells to attack an aggressive form of childhood leukemia, a pediatric oncologist has achieved a complete response in his patient, who faced grim prospects when she relapsed after conventional treatment. The innovative experimental therapy used bioengineered T cells, custom-designed to multiply rapidly in the patient, and then destroy leukemia cells. After the treatment, the child's doctors found that she had no evidence of cancer.
Pediatric oncologist Stephan A. Grupp, MD, PhD, of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania, presented updated results of the clinical trial involving these engineered cells at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting today in Atlanta. Grupp is the director of Translational Research for the Center for Childhood Cancer Research at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and a professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Grupp's research builds on his ongoing collaboration with Penn scientists who originally developed the modified T cells as a treatment for B-cell leukemias. The Penn team reported on early results of a trial using this cell therapy in adult chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients in August of 2011. Carl H. June, MD, of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, leads this research group, which along with Grupp's work, is presenting new data at the ASH meeting showing that nine of 12 patients with advanced leukemias in the clinical trial, including two children, responded to treatment with CTL019 cells.
One of the nine responding patients is the 7-year-old with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Grupp and Penn colleagues adapted the treatment to combat ALL, the most common childhood leukemia, and also the most common childhood cancer. Although physicians can cure roughly 85 percent of ALL cases, the remaining 15 percent of such cases stubbornly resist treatment.
The CTL019 therapy, formerly called CART19, represents a new approach in cancer treatment. T cells are the workhorses of the immune system, recognizing and attacking invading disease cells. However, cancer cells fly under the radar of immune surveillance, evading detection by T cells. CAR T cells (chimeric antigen receptor T cells) are engineered to specifically target B cells, which become cancerous in certain leukemias, such as ALL and CLL, as well as types of lymphoma, another cancer of the immune cells.
CD19 is a protein found only on the surface of B cells. By creating an antibody that recognizes CD19, and physically connecting that antibody to T cells, the researchers have created a guided missile that locks in on and kills B cells, thereby attacking B-cell leukemia.
In using the CTL019 treatment in his pediatric patient, Grupp found that the very activity that destroyed leukemia cells also stimulated a highly activated immune response called a cytokine release syndrome. The child became very ill and had to be admitted to the intensive care unit.
Grupp and his team decided to counteract these toxic side effects by using 2 immunomodulating drugs that blunted the overactive immune response and rapidly relieved the child's treatment-related symptoms. These results were effective enough that this approach is now being successfully incorporated into CTL019 treatments for adults as well.
The immunomodulating drugs did not interfere with the CTL019 therapy's anti-leukemia benefits, which have persisted 6 months after the infusion of cell therapy. This persistence is essential, because the engineered T cells remain in the patient's body to protect against a recurrence of the cancer.
"These engineered T cells have proven to be active in B cell leukemia in adults," Grupp said. "We are excited to see that the CTL019 approach may be effective in untreatable cases of pediatric ALL as well. Our hope is that these results will lead to widely available treatments for high-risk B cell leukemia and lymphoma, and perhaps other cancers in the future."
"This type of pioneering research addresses the importance of timing when considering experimental therapies for relapsed patients," added Susan R. Rheingold, MD, one of the leaders in the Children's Hospital program for children with relapsed leukemia.
"To ensure newly relapsed patients with refractory leukemia meet criteria for options like CTL019, we must begin exploring these innovative approaches earlier than ever before. Having the conversation with families earlier provides them more treatment options to offer the best possible outcome."
In August 2012, Novartis acquired exclusive rights from Penn to CART-19, the therapy that was the subject of this clinical trial and which is now known as CTL019.
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The Washington Nationals racing presidents joined new Nationals mascot Screech at the Verizon Center tonight for a basketball game between the last place Washington Wizards of the Eastern Conference and the last place Sacramento Kings of the West — a battle for pride which came down to the last shot.
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of a "31 Appearances in 31 Days" tour that the Nationals have arranged since the new Screech's unveiling two weeks ago. The Nationals mascots made an appearance earlier in the day at the DC St. Patrick's Day parade, with Screech sporting a kilt.
It was "Kids Night" for the Washington Wizards, with player introductions by junior Wizards fans, and mascots from around the DC area working the crowd before and during the game.
Joining the Nationals mascots were Mel, The George Mason University Patriot, the Baltimore Orioles' "The Bird," the Washington Capitals' Slapshot, and of course the Wizards' own G-Wiz, G-Man, and G-Fan.
Since its unveiling, the new look of the "teenage Screech" has been getting a lot of criticism in Nationals blogs and discussion forums. So this was a great opportunity –and a relief — to see the new Screech work a real crowd, which helped the Nationals' new mascot look a lot less goofy than he did dancing around an empty stage when he was first announced.
Don't get me wrong. The Capitals' own eagle mascot Slapshot didn't look very intimidated by the permanent grin affixed to Screech's head, but the new costume did give Screech a lot more room to dance with the cheerleaders, bound up stairs, and throw t-shirts into the stands. I have a feeling we'll get used to "teenage Screech" pretty quickly.


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It could be a scene from a B-rated horror flick or a ridiculous kids' comedy: a bug-eyed moth deftly pilots a robotic vehicle, zig-zagging back and forth to seek out its target, a sweet-smelling lady moth. But this isn't fiction; this bizarre scene actually happened in the laboratory of three Japanese researchers from the University of Tokyo. Their research is published in this week's issue of Bioinspiration and Biomimetics.
The goal wasn't entertainment, although it was a likely byproduct. Instead, the researchers are interested in biologically-inspired robots that can recognize and seek out odors, such as a gas leak or a chemical spill.
For this type of sensory processing, nature is an excellent place to turn for inspiration, since tracking down odors is a key aspect of survival for many species. Plants and animals have evolved in response to all sorts of ecological problems, and adaptations found in the natural world have been very helpful in advancing technology of all kinds (see here and here for previous Ars coverage of biologically-inspired technology).
The researchers decided to use the silkmoth (Bombyx mori) as a model animal, since this insect's well-researched sensory system is highly attuned to chemical signals. Male silkmoths locate mates by tracking a strong pheromone, called bombykol, that is released by females. The males have a distinctive way of tracking these odors: they start out with an initial "surge" toward the smell, then zig-zag back and forth until they can localize it. While it appears erratic, zigging and zagging actually allows the moth to use their two antennae to hone in on the pheromone's location by turning toward the antenna that is receiving the greater chemical signal.
Knowing this, the researchers decided use the silkmoth as a living "brain" to pilot a robot toward an odor.
Enter the robot. This two-wheeled vehicle had a polystyrene ball that functioned like the trackball on a computer mouse; the moth stood on top of the ball, and as it walked in any one direction, the ball would roll, directing the vehicle. The robot was also equipped with a single motor on each side, as well as sensors and microcontrollers that could calculate the trajectory and turn radius. The moth was placed (actually, it was glued) at the helm, ready to drive the little vehicle.
The experiment took place in a wind tunnel—set for less than 1 meter per second, to help distribute the odor—with a few drops of synthetic bombykol at one end and the moth-piloted robot downwind of the scent. A trial was considered a "success" if the robot could locate and reach the faux booty call at the other end of the tunnel within 210 seconds, without hitting either wall of the chamber.
The moths were surprisingly good (though somewhat erratic) drivers; all 19 moths were successful in reaching the bombykol within the time allowed.
To find out how the moths—and the rest of the robotic exoskeleton—would respond to unexpected challenges, the researchers threw them a few curveballs. First, they covered the moths' visual fields, and the success rate dropped to a still-respectable 84.2 percent. They introduced a turn bias, which increased the forward rotation of the motor on one side, and the backward rotation of the motor on the other side, causing the vehicle to respond unevenly to the moth's direction. The moths were still pretty good at the task, succeeding in 80.8 percent of the trials.
Finally, the researchers introduced a time delay of between 200 and 600 ms, creating a lapse between the moth's movement and the vehicle's response. The moths had no problem with the time delay on its own, but struggled when they experienced a time delay and a turn bias simultaneously.
Eventually, the moth's role as driver will be replaced by technology; the end goal is a fully-autonomous robot with a "brain" that mimics the moth's own sensory perception. The trials showed that the silkmoth's sensory system is amazingly quick, responsive, and adaptive in an artificial situation, so now the challenge is to construct an actual prototype with these attributes. By determining how variables such as turn bias affect success, the researchers can predict the effects of—and account for—these variables as they continue to develop the robot. Gathering information about sensitivity and processing time can also help researchers decide the types and numbers of sensors to include.
Perhaps one day, the humble silkmoth will play a role in securing our safety from chemical spills and leaks. But until then, at least we have the video.
Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, 2013. DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/8/1/016008 (About DOIs).
Listing image by From Ando, et. al.


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The fonds consists of textual and photographic records of Margaret Bond, the Bond-Adams Company and Victor P. Bond.
The records for Margaret Joy Bond include personal correspondence, postcards, a scrapbook and certificate (1948-1966).
The records for the Bond-Adams Company include business correspondence and accounts books dealing with clients, companies, and land deals including the record of sale of Tofield Industrial and University Plateau, land speculation in Victoria, B.C. and documents for Walters vs Bond Adams. There are also insurance forms, pamphlets and advertisements (1910-1915).
The records for Victor P. Bond consist of an accounts book relating to an unknown business of Victor P. Bond, order forms for suits and accounts journals for Victor P. Bond's tailoring business (1920-1922,1947-1958).
The photographs include images of farming, coal mining in Toefield, construction, construction, firefighting equipment and the offices of the Bond-Adams Company (ca. 1910-1912).
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Apple CEO Tim Cook made his television debut on Thursday night, sitting down for a one-on-one interview with NBC's Brian Williams. The interview was unsurprisingly sprinkled with what sounded like PR speak from Cook, and most of what he had to say mirrored what we already read from a similar Bloomberg Businessweek interview published yesterday. And while Cook wouldn't cop to having an Apple-branded TV set in the works, he did repeatedly say that Apple has an "intense interest" in the television market.
Still, there were a couple frank moments.
Williams noted that in the entire history of business, no other company had managed to constantly stay on top. There was a "natural cycle," Williams said, and eventually Apple would surely fade. "Don't bet against us," Cook retorted.
Williams asked how Cook felt about Samsung's recent ad campaign for the Galaxy SIII, which pokes fun at Apple customers who wait in long lines to get the latest iPhone. The ads paint iPhone users as unhip, suggesting the iPhone is something only your parents would use.
"We love our customers," Cook said. "We'll fight to defend them from anyone."
Williams also asked how Cook felt about former CEO Steve Jobs' passing, which seemed to happen rather suddenly despite his ongoing health problems.
"I always thought [Steve] would bounce back, because he always did," Cook admitted. "And, it wasn't until extremely close to the end that I reached a sort of intellectual point that... he couldn't bounce this time."
You can watch the full interview online at MSNBC (Flash required), and we have embedded a version uploaded to YouTube below. We think the 20 minutes is worth watching if just to catch a glimpse of Cook's high school yearbook photo, replete with fashionable perm.


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Raising The Minimum Wage: Whom Does It Help?
Raising The Minimum Wage: Whom Does It Help?
For some of America's lowest-paid workers, the new year means a pay raise. Some states set their own minimum wages, above the federal rate of $7.25 an hour, and that rekindles an old debate over whether minimum wages make sense — especially at a time of high unemployment.
Like several other states, Washington state's minimum wage is indexed to the cost of living. This year, the formula has raised the statewide minimum from $8.67 to $9.04 an hour, making it the nation's highest statewide rate.
Zack Colon is just out of college, and while he prepares for grad school, he works as a chef. He says that extra 37 cents an hour will make an appreciable difference to his weekly income.
"Ten, fifteen dollars is like two meals. Any raise is, like, big," Colon says.
But for Colon's boss, the raise is an unwelcome financial burden. Skyler Riley is a young entrepreneur, and two years ago this 20-something opened his restaurant — Rainin' Ribs — just outside Seattle. Even though he owns the place, Riley also works the till.
"With your payroll, you know you can operate a lot yourself, you can certainly cut hours in a way that you physically use your own two hands," Riley says. "But when you're raising the payroll costs of an hourly minimum wage, it's definitely not helping."
Pro-business groups in Washington state say the $9-an-hour wage may prove to be a "tipping point," a kind of sticker shock that could discourage employers from hiring more people. There's even a theory that the state minimum wage — which is counted separately from tips — might explain the understaffing and lousy service at some Seattle restaurants. It's Economy 101: The more you raise the price of something — employment, in this case — the less of it there'll be.
"I don't think there's any sensible economist who thinks you could double the minimum wage and not throw a lot of people out of work," says David Neumark, director of the Center for Economics and Public Policy at University of California, Irvine. There is a debate, he says, over the effect of incremental raises for the small group of largely unskilled workers who earn the minimum wage.
"The consensus from a lot of studies I've surveyed — including my own — says that a 10 percent increase in the minimum reduces employment of those very low-skilled groups by about 1 to 2 percent," he says.
Keep in mind, that's 1 to 2 percent of the people earning minimum wage, and they make up only about 5 percent of the workforce nationally. So the job losses are pretty tiny.
Defenders of the minimum wage say it's even less than that, pointing to a couple of recent studies that show zero net job loss. David Cooper, an analyst with the pro-labor Economic Policy Institute, says the minimum wage is especially necessary now.
"When you have lines of the unemployed around the corner looking for jobs, there's no real pressure for employers to raise wages," Cooper says.
And in this age of Occupy Wall Street, Cooper says, pushing up that wage floor is one way to address growing income inequality.
"Increases in the minimum wage are essentially a shift from corporate profits to low-wage employees," he says. "And we know that low-wage employees spend more of their money. They're going to spend essentially every penny they get, so that increased demand is going to result in more economic activity and potentially more jobs."
Still, economists on both sides tend to agree that the minimum wage itself isn't that big of a factor for America's working poor. For one thing, many of the people earning the minimum aren't poor at all; they're teenagers or middle-class part-timers looking for extra income.
The working poor tend to earn more — because they have to if they're supporting a family. For them, the benefit of recent minimum-wage hikes has been relatively small, especially when compared with other anti-poverty programs such as the federal Earned Income Tax Credit.


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A 23-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a Boulder police officer after the suspect got into a fight with a University Hill restaurant manager over a $3 bar tab.
Officer Christian McCracken remained hospitalized Wednesday with serious injuries.
The manager of The Sink, 1165 13th St., called police at 4:15 p.m. Friday to report that Treven Hunter would not leave the bar after refusing to pay his tab. The manager told police that Hunter repeatedly punched him as he escorted Hunter out of the bar, leaving the manager with minor injuries.
When McCracken approached Hunter on the streets, witnesses told police, Hunter — who appeared to be under the influence of alcohol — immediately became aggressive. When McCracken tried to handcuff him, Hunter began assaulting the officer, according to police.
Several bystanders were able to help hold down Hunter until other officers arrived. McCracken reported that Hunter had hit him in the side of the head, causing him to black out for a few seconds.
According to court records, McCracken reported a headache and nausea shortly after the fight and was having trouble remembering parts of the incident. Fellow officers noticed that McCracken was responding strangely to their questions and was not making sense.
While writing the case report at the Boulder County Jail, another officer noticed McCracken began having medical issues and called paramedics. McCracken remained at Boulder Community Hospital on Wednesday with what police deemed serious injuries.
Hunter posted $500 bond early Monday morning. The District Attorney's Office has filed a motion to increase Hunter's bond, arguing that the amount was set without any input from the DA's Office and without full knowledge of McCracken's condition.
Police are still looking for witnesses who may have taken video or pictures of the incident. Those with information are asked to contact Detective Kurt Foster at 303-441-4329.
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Cubs notebook: Felix Pie staying in Chicago
There are two young players Cubs general manager Jim Hendry won't trade today.
One is his 9-year-old son, John, a Little League All-Star who was on the field with his father at Wrigley Field late Monday afternoon.
"John is not going anywhere," the elder Hendry said with mock emphasis.
Hendry was even more emphatic in denying broadcast and Internet rumors claiming the Cubs were shopping prized center field prospect Felix Pie in advance of today's 3 p.m. non-waiver trading deadline.
"Felix Pie is not going anywhere," Hendry said of the 22-year-old, who hit just .216 in two stints with the parent club earlier this year. "It's unfair to the young man to hear about that he's being shopped around. It couldn't be further from the truth. That's not good journalism. It's just wrong. There is not one club that we talked to in any deal about Felix."
Hendry wouldn't discuss specifics about any ongoing talks with teams.
Reports that the Cubs were interested in Baltimore outfielder Jay Payton popped up and were just as quickly shot down. Numerous reports had the Cubs looking at just about every Texas Rangers player other than Sammy Sosa, even though a Cubs insider said the North Siders had no talks with the Rangers.
So will the Cubs make a deal today? If they do, it probably wouldn't be a big one, in the wake of their having acquired catcher Jason Kendall two weeks ago.
"Let's not make a trade to make a trade," manager Lou Piniella said. "We're comfortable with what we have. Every team in baseball that's in contention is looking to improve somehow. But I think it's more curiosity to see what's out there than substance at times."
Hendry said anything could happen on deadline day. Three years ago today, he pulled the trigger on a four-team deal that brought Nomar Garciaparra to town. That morning, he woke up not expecting anything like that to happen.
"Some of the best deals we ever made - and some of the smaller deals we made after the deadline - weren't even on the radar screen the night before," Hendry said. "But things could change. We'll keep plugging and see if anything makes sense."
Hendry and Piniella also said getting Kerry Wood (shoulder injury) back later this week would be like trading for a quality relief pitcher. Wood is to make a rehab appearance for Double-A Tennessee tonight, and if all goes well, he could be on the roster later this week.
Sox-cessful Phillies
Philadelphia came to town with two members of the 2005 World Series champion White Sox on its active roster - center fielder Aaron Rowand and second baseman Tadahito Iguchi. (Another ex-Sox, pitcher Freddy Garcia, is on the disabled list with a right shoulder strain.)
The Sox traded Iguchi to the Phillies on Friday, and he went 3-for-7 with two runs and an RBI in his first two games.
"I feel real privileged to be able to play with all the great players here," Iguchi said. "Yes, it's an interesting part of my career right now. I have my home here, my family here. ... It's not strange at all (to be back in Chicago). As for being here at Wrigley, wow, this is the same feeling I had with the White Sox."
Rowand entered Monday's game hitting .317 with 14 homers and 57 RBI. He joined the Phillies in 2006 and has been showing Iguchi the ropes.
"He's only been here for a couple of days," Rowand said. "I'm trying to get him acclimated to the situation, to the clubhouse, to the guys, show him around a little bit. I'm sure I can relate to what he is going through now."
Aches and pains
Catcher Henry Blanco (herniated disc in his neck) might still be a few weeks away from returning. Although he's been playing on a rehab assignment with Class A Peoria for a week, the Cubs are taking things slowly.
First baseman/outfielder Daryle Ward (strained right calf) has been sent to Arizona for rehab work and could be out for another month.